OAKLAND, Calif. — The movement to keep the A’s in Oakland is picking up momentum. December has provided jolt after jolt.

The latest news came Wednesday from the East Bay Express that the Golden State Warriors’ owners want to buy the Athletics and build a ballpark at the Howard Terminal in Oakland. Currently, the Warriors play in Oracle Arena which is located next to the O.co Coliseum off of I-880.

For anyone wanting to keep the A’s in Oakland, or anyone wanting East Bay’s baseball team to get new digs, that would be great.

Warriors ownership, led by Joe Lacob and Peter Guber, has turned around the franchise since buying it in 2010. Even with their San Francisco arena plans far behind schedule, they have shown an ability to get things done.

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Keeping the A’s in Oakland is trendy again, like high-top fades. The question now is if these defibrillations are actually giving life to a new stadium or just the final twitches of a dead movement.

A couple of weeks ago, courtroom jousting between San Jose and Major League Baseball came to the surface, bringing more dark clouds over the A’s-to-South Bay movement. Now, on the heels of colorful renderings of a ballpark on the Oakland waterfront, comes the jolt of possible Warriors involvement.

In the end, though, all that matters is how Oakland takes advantage.

No more renderings. We love art and can appreciate beautiful paintings, but the stunt is growing stale.

No more waiting on the San Jose option to fall apart. Certainly, if the territorial rights battle favors the San Francisco Giants, that leaves A’s ownership with little recourse but to view Oakland as wife material and put a ring on it. But that could take forever and hoping someone else loses is not the same as winning.

No more multiple options business. Settle on one site and produce a feasible financial plan. Having two potential stadium locations belies the kind of commitment and focus necessary to pull this thing off. It continues the debacle this whole movement has been.

Coliseum City seems to be the least fantastical of the options. The city and county already owns the land — which is the money-strapped city’s only real contribution to any lucrative project. The East Oakland site eliminates the tricky task of appeasing or avoiding the Bay Conservation and Development Commission. It also has easy public transit access, where the other site might require shuttles.

But Coliseum City – a plan for a new stadium complex at the A’s current home — is still a pipe dream with enough moving parts and potential wrong steps to make a Rubik’s Cube dizzy. So if the money is behind the Howard Terminal, then Oakland needs to put all the eggs in that basket and at least scrap the A’s phase of the Coliseum City venture.

Either way, the opportunity is as real as it’s been right now. It just feels like something is about to happen — like it’s the bottom of the ninth and Coco Crisp is up with no outs: you just want to get the pie ready.

If not, would Knauss, Ghielmetti and Lacob build on the Howard Terminal anyway for the potential profit and rent to Wolff’s A’s?

Will anyone guarantee the A’s a new stadium on the water by 2017?

What would it take for them to get behind the Coliseum City fantasy?

Where do the Raiders fit into any of these plans, or is the A’s best bet to break up with its co-tenants?

Would keeping the A’s in Oakland redeem Lacob for moving the Warriors to San Francisco?

These questions can’t be answered with divided energies and painting contests. Fancy complexes don’t get pulled off without real leadership and serious salesmanship. Sure, it requires vision. But we’ve seen enough paintings. Let’s see some feasible plans.

Get on that now, while Oakland has the momentum.

Marcus Thompson II is a columnist for Bay Area News Group. Follow him on Twitter @ThompsonScribe.